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A pandemic expert who has advocated strict community lockdowns as a way to curb the COVID-19 pandemic is blasting California Gov. Gavin Newsom for relaxing the stay at home orders “I don’t even know what they’re thinking," said Dr. Yaneer Bar-Yam. "There’s no strategy, there’s no plan, they’re just saying, ‘Hey, we’re a little bit better so we’re going to open up.’ That just doesn’t make any sense." But this week, Bar-Yam is criticizing Newsom’s decision to relax the recent stay-at-home order as another example of "yo-yo" lockdowns that don’t work. “It means we’re going to shoot back up and...

Wall Street traders and hedgefunds are currently very upset, as the “unwashed masses” lose them billions in a short squeeze of GameStop and other stocks.Users of the subreddit r/WallStreetBets are fighting back against the multi-billion dollar hedgefunds in a rather creative way. GameStop became one of the most shorted stocks on Wall Street last week, after a newsletter from a short seller, Andrew Left of Citron Capital, encouraged people to short the company. Gamestop had a short interest of 102% of its shares, making it one of the most shorted on the market.To “short” a company is to bet on...

Another day and still another maneuver in California’s erratic management of the COVID-19 pandemic.On Monday, officials lifted California’s most recent stay-at-home order, giving businesses — small businesses mostly — and their employees permission to take a couple of baby steps toward reopening profitable operations.It’s not a moment too soon.Employers and employees alike have suffered mightily as Gov. Gavin Newsom periodically imposed and then lifted restrictions in hopes of, as he puts, “bending the curve” on infections. “We have seen some flattening of the curve but we are not out of the woods yet,” Newsom said Monday.It’s not certain that his...

Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky. Source: CNNSpeaking on CNN's town hall Wednesday, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said it's "going to take awhile for us to feel like we're back to a sense of normalcy." Answering a question from CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who asked where the US will be with the number of Americans vaccinated after the first 100 days, Walensky said that she believes 100 million Americans will be vaccinated within that timeframe. "That will be protection for perhaps about 50 million, some people will be after two doses, some people will...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, Sponsored by SLANTED from Sharyl Attkisson, for Wednesday shows that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Biden’s job performance. Forty-eight percent (48%) disapprove. The latest figures include 34% who Strongly Approve of the job Biden is doing and 41% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -7. (see trends)

On the back of disappointing earnings from Facebook and Netflix, AAPL stock dipped into its earnings release, but as the company's stellar results just showed this may have been a bit premature, because Tim Cook's company just reported blockbuster earnings including its first ever $100BN quarter, around in its iPhone 12 release quarter.Here are the details:Q1 Rev. $111.44B, beating expectations of $103.12B, and up 21%from $91.8 billion Y/Y. This, as expected, was the company's first ever $100BN+ quarter.Q1 EPS $1.68, beating expectations of $1.42, and up 35% Y/YQ1 iPhone Revenue $65.60B, beating expectations of $60.33BQ1 Products Rev. $95.68B, beating expectations...

The crisis at the Southern Border is not going away and the mainstream media is failing to report the truth on it again. This week the surge happening, its been building up over the past few weeks after Biden’s dangerous promises to open the borders for amnesty. The crisis is beginning to explode again. When doing our routine intel check on our first border wall in Sunland Park. New Mexico, it was revealed that there have been at least 30 attempted incursions on our site per a day that are being thwarted thanks to the incredible wall that our patriots...

The price of a gallon of unleaded gasoline rose to an average $2.40 in the U.S. on Monday — its highest level in 11 months, according to travel club AAA. The average price per gallon in Nebraska rose 5 cents in the past week to $2.35. In Iowa, it rose a penny to $2.33 a gallon. And yet the world remains in the grip of a deadly pandemic. Tourism and entertainment venues remain either closed or operating well below capacity. Unemployment in the U.S. remained high at 6.7% last month. Gas prices are supposed to remain low when demand is...

The Biden administration is considering implementing restrictions for domestic travelers amid the coronavirus pandemic, including potentially requiring negative COVID tests prior to air travel. Reuters reported that the Biden administration is “actively looking” at forcing domestic travelers to test negative for the coronavirus prior to boarding flights. But new measures might also include those who intend to cross “land borders,” Reuters reported.

... swagger and surefootedness is what makes Newsom’s missteps in his response to the pandemic so hard to understand. He seems oblivious to an obvious truth about government: The public needs and expects swift, straightforward explanations, especially during an emergency. But he has been erratic in the state’s fight against the coronavirus. The governor’s first-in-the-nation stay-at-home order March 19 seemed shrewd as COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus His questionable decisions began three months later. Despite growing evidence that the virus was mostly transmitted when people spent time indoors with others not from their immediate household, the Newsom administration...

Boogaloo Boi Mike Dunn joins The Alex Jones Show to call him a coward and controlled opposition for working to change the system peacefully from within, and says his generation will have to take up the mantle of a violent revolution to make up for Jones' generation's failure. Video...

A new audit of California's Employment Development Department (EDD) finds the agency was unprepared and had ineffective management to handle the surge in jobless claims during the virus pandemic. In September, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee ordered State Auditor Elaine Howle to conduct an in-depth audit into EDD following a tidal wave of abuse reports. One of the most notable abuses was rapper Fontrell Antonio Baines, 31, who fraudulently collected $1.2 million in EDD claims. He even detailed the EDD scam in a rap video. State lawmakers had criticized the agency for massive backlogs that delayed claims, along with its...

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In the last few days - really since the BIden inauguration - we have seen declarations of victory over covid across the board, from the likes of Dr. Fauci who yesterday said that coronavirus infections may be about to hit a "plateau", to Wall Street, where Bank of America yesterday declared "The Beginning Of The End Of The COVID Crisis." Then, last week, we asked if it was "almost over" when the US saw a record one-day drop in covid hospitalizations.Today, we got further confirmation that the inauguration of Biden was magically just the event that was needed to put...

Under a small blue canopy adorned with yellow balloons and vinyl banners, volunteers for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign welcomed passing shoppers, handing them clipboards and encouraging them to sign their petitions to remove the Democratic governor from office. Some drivers honked in support. Others waved and said they've already signed. Hundreds of volunteers just like them busily collect signatures throughout the state, spending weekends in California parking lots discussing the need for a change in power. Parents put down their names, worried about the mental health of their virtually schooled children. Business owners sign, their livelihoods crushed by the...

In response to the emergency—and to a recall effort around his handling of the pandemic and the economy—Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is lifting stay-at-home restrictions, removing essential workers from the state's vaccine priority list, and championing a complex deal that extends the state's expiring partial eviction moratorium but still allows landlords to pursue evictions. Newsom has long insisted his decisions are "lead by data and science," but his moves come just as new studies show that keeping workers out of the workplace and banning evictions play pivotal roles in reducing the spread of the deadly virus. The first study, from...

University of California, Riverside professor Jane Ward called heterosexuality “tragic,” adding that it encourages men to objectify women, and pulls them into “toxic” masculine culture. “It really looks like straight men and women don’t like each other very much, that women spend so much time complaining about men, and we still have so much evidence of misogyny,” said UC Riverside professor Jane Ward to Insider. “From an LGBT perspective, [being straight] looks actually very tragic,” added Ward, who is a professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the university. One “queer” woman who was interviewed for the professor’s book said...

Residents in the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus hotspots of Shanghai and Harbin say they know of many more infections than what officials have announced, according to interviews with The Epoch Times.Meanwhile, authorities in Beijing and the provinces of Jilin and Shaanxi mandated more COVID-19 testing, while Hebei Province issued more traffic restrictions, in an attempt to contain local outbreaks.Some people said they were running out of food and important medicines as authorities imposed an indefinite lockdown and forbade them from leaving their homes.ShanghaiThe financial hub of Shanghai announced on Jan. 24 that the famous tourist site City God Temple...

ROME — The Vatican has called for a “responsible, unprecedented collective response” to the “momentous challenge” of climate change. Speaking on behalf of Pope Francis, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said in an online address Monday to the Climate Adaptation Summit taking place in the Netherlands that climate change “represents one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day.” “The scientific data at our disposal clearly show the urgent need for swift action,” Cardinal Parolin said. “The transition to a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is a problem not only of the domain of technology, but also...

It’s understandable that the McCain family is close to Biden, but perhaps they ought to have looked at the large horse he was riding atop. Upon examination, they would have noticed it was wooden, hollow, and filled with Odysseus and the other Greek soldiers of the new left. Now that the progressive Trojan horse is well within the walls of the nation’s capital, Meghan McCain is stunned — stunned, I tell you! — that leftists didn’t really want unity after all. The wake-up call for her, it seems, came after former “CBS Nightly News” and “Today” host Katie Couric [...]...